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if· .. < < Annual Report ~~ ~ OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL (. ASSOCIATION , .. FOR THE YEAR 1959 + VOLUME 1 + Proceedings UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Washington, D. C. " ;' " " " .' '. : (' J Letter of Submittal THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C., June 15, 1960. '" To the Congress of the United States: In accordance with the act of incorporation of the American Historical Association, approved January 4, 1889, I have the honor of submitting to Congress the Annual Report of the Association for , the year 1959. I Respectfully, I f LEONARD CARMICHAEL, Secretary. III I\ f J \, / 1 1 ~l \,r I J ) '" ',. '; ! Letter of Transmittal THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Washington, D. C., June IS, 1960. ... !{ SIR: As provided by law, I submit herewith the Annual Report of the American Historica.1 Association for the year 1959. This consists of two volumes in one. Volume I contains the proceedings of the Association for 1959, and the report of the secretary-treasurer for the Pacific Coast Branch for 1959. Volume II will contain the Writings on American History for 1957. BOYD C. SHAFER, Executive Secretary. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C. I V t ( rl ~! \ J I--- ' . J ~ IJ \, J i ~ 1 I' . i I) ~ f CONTENTS Page \ Act of incorporation .......•....•......••....••.•.......•••.....•...•.. IX ,; Organization and activities of the American Historical As- r) sociatlon .....•.•..•............•........••••.•.....................•... XI Constitution •...•.•.•.•...•...•.............•.•..•.•......•.....•......••. XV 1 Officers and members of the Council for 1960 ............... XIX ... I Committees and delegates for 1960 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• XXIII Ad interim appointments for 1959 ................................ XXV Pacific Coast Branch officers for 1960 ......................... XXVII I Proceedings of the American Historical Association for I 1959 f Minutes of the meeting of the Council, December 27, I 1959 .....•.•.•.......•.....•....•................•...•.......•...... 3 Minutes of the business meeting, December 29, 1959 ... 6 ~ Report of the Executive Secretary and Managing Editor \ for the year 1959 ..•..•..•.....•.•...•.•.•...•.••.•..•.......... 8 i Report of the Treasurer for the fiscal year 1958- 59 .. .. 15 , Report of the Auditors for the fiscal year 1958-59 ..... 20 I Report of the Board of Trustees for 1958-59 ............. 21 \ Draft budgets, 1959-60, 1960-61, unrestricted funds .. .. 25 , Statistics of membership ....................................... .. 27 i Committee reports for 1959 ...............•.................... 28 Othe r reports ............•....................•..................... 43 l Report of the Pacific Coast Branch for 1959 ................. .. 49 j VII \ ! ~" I r I, I . ' I I: ) \ ''4, " ", ACT OF INCORPORATION , , .~ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of t United States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew D. White, of Ithica, in the State of New York; George Bancroft, !' of Washington, in the District of Columbia; Justin Winsor, of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts; William F. Poole, of I, Chicago, in the State of nlinois; Herbert B. Adams of Baltimore, ,.> in the State of Maryland; Clarence W. Bowen, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, their associates and successors, are hereby created, in the District of Columbia, a body corporate and politic by the name of the American Historical Association, for the pro motion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history, and of history in America. Said Association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia as far as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to adopt ..I I a constitution, and make bylaws not inconsistent with law. Said As I sociation shall have ita principal office at Washington, in the Dis !" trict of Columbia, and may hold its annual meetings in such places as the said incorporators shall determine. Said Association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, '" concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study 1, in America. Said Secretary shall communicate to Congress the whole of such report, or such portions thereof as he shall see fit. ~ The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit J said Association to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian In stitution or in the National Museum, at their discretion, upon such conditions and under such rules as they shall prescribe. I The real property situated in Square 817, in the city of Wash ington, District of Columbia, described as lot 23, owned, occupied, and used by the American Historical Association, is exempt from all taxation so long as the same is so owned and occupied, and not used for commercial purposes, subject to the provisions of sec I tions 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled, "An Act to define the real ~ property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia", ap proved December 24, 1942. ) [Approved, January 4, 1889, and amended July 3, 1957.1 } IX :', 'j I, \ ~\~l { ! t !, ( r " '. '" ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION THE ASSOCIATION '''', \ / f in merlca. It is a society not only for scholars, though it has for the last \ half century included in its membership the outstanding historical scholars in America. not only for educators. though it has included the great American teachers of history, but also for every man and { woman who is interested in the stud of histo in America. Its } most generous bene actors have been nonprofessionals who love j history for its own sake and who wish to spread that love of history " i to a wider and wider circle. ( LEADERSHIP '" Among those who have labored as members and later served it also as President, the Americ,an Historical As sociation can list I such distinguished names as George Bancroft, Justin Winsor, Henry Adams, James Ford Rhodes. Alfred Thayer Mahan, Henry C. Lea, John Bach McMaster, Frederick Jackson Turner, Theodore Roose velt, Edward Channing, Woodrow Wilson, J. Franklin Jameson, Charles M. Andrews, James H. Breasted, James Harvey Robinson, 1 Michael Rostovtzeff, Carl L. Becker. and Charles A. Beard. 1 ANNUAL MEETING ) It meets in the Christmas week at a different place each year to accomtnodate in turn members living in different parts of the t country. The attendance at these tneetings has been increasing ) I steadily. In recent years registration has varied froq} 2,230 to 2,450. The formal programs of these meetings include important , contributions to every field of historical scholarship. many of ") which are SUbsequently printed. \ PUBUCA TIONS J The publications of the Association are many and their scope 1 is wide. The Annual Report, usually in two or more volumes, is printed ,! for the Association by the United States Goyernment. It contains the Proceedings of the Association, as well as bibliographies and guides to materials. The American Historical Review, published quarterly and distributed free to all members of the Association, '. {~ is the recognized organ of the historical profession in America. \ It prints authoritative articles and critical reviews of new books ! in all fields of history. The Association als'o cooperates with the ~}\ National Council for the Social Studies in the publication of Social " • i XI , ~ ) {, \ "'; '" " XII AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Education, one of the nlost inlportant journals in Atnerica dealing with the problenls of history teaching in the schools. , , , Besides these periodical publications, the Association controls a revolving fund out of which it publishes fronl tinle to tinle his torical nlonographs selected fronl the whole field of history. It has as well three separate endoWnlent funds, the inconle fronl which r' • is devoted to the publication of historical studies. The Albert J. Beveridge Fund of $100,000 was established as a nlemorial to the late Senator Beveridge by his wife, Catherine Beveridge, and a large group of his friends in Indiana. The income from this fund is applied to the publication of historical monographs. The Littleton Griswold Fund was established by Alice Griswold in memory of her father, William E. Littleton, and of her husband, Frank T. Griswold. The income from this fund, the principal of which amounts to $35,000, is applied to the publication of material relative to the legal history of the United States in the colonial period. The Mat teson Fund, now amounting to approximately $95,000, was willed to the Association by the late David M. Matteson. The income from this fund may be used only for bibliographies and indexes. ornER ACTIVITIES The Association from tinle to Unle, through special commit tees, interests itself actively in promoting the sound teaching of .. history in the schools. It has done nluch and is doing more to col lect and preserve historical manuscripts in public and private repositorie s. The Association maintains close relationships with state and local historical societies and with the federal government. For many years it has had a Pacific Coast Branch for nlembers living in the Far West. SOURCES OF SUPPORT The Anlerican Historical Association is in a position to do sig nificant and useful work, not only in the advancement of learning but also in the dissemination of knowledge. It commands the re sources of the learned historians,